This year’s presidential campaigns demonstrate the steadily increasing integration of political figures into pop culture, and vice versa.
Sports
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Bread, Circuses, the Super Bowl, and Fascism
Today on TAP: The distractions of mass culture
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Victory Through Cheating
Today on TAP: Do Republican senators think presidential elections are as important as baseball?
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The Nats Shouldn’t Go to the White House—Their Fans Despise Trump
What the numbers show: To love the Nats is to loathe the president.
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Irresistible: Dodger Fan Succumbs to Nats
Today on TAP: The most powerful thing in the world
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College Athletes Should Be Able to Earn Money From Their Likeness
The NCAA’s feeble attack on a California bill allowing that is full of sound and fury, but little substance.
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Using College Athletes as Concussion Test Subjects Makes Nobody Safer
An NCAA/Defense Department joint research program is flawed, because it compares populations of concussion victims that are not comparable.
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Frank Robinson: He Blazed a Trail Baseball Still Refuses to Follow
Professional sports teams have made little progress in elevating African Americans to the top slots on the field.
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Nike Tells Kaepernick: Just Do It
The former quarterback’s new deal with Nike could have mixed effects on social justice.